 assignment, submitted work. As a teacher you can have your learners submit work through your Moodle course. This saves on paper and it's better than email because when they submit you'll see a list of your class only on your Moodle course, not cluttered up with emails from colleagues and companies. What they submit can be uploaded files or text written directly on Moodle and as we see if we look at this example of an assignment, because you can type your instructions into Moodle's text editor it doesn't only have to be text. You can add links, images or videos relevant to your assignment. An assignment may be for one individual or it may be for a group and as a teacher you can choose whether or not to see the identities of your learners as you're grading it. So if we want to add an assignment we need to turn the editing on either by clicking the button top right or in the administration block clicking the link turn editing on and then in the section where we want to add the assignment we click the link add an activity or resource to bring up Moodle's activity chooser. Assignment is the first on the list and we can either click it once to read the explanation about an assignment with some examples for using it and then click the add button at the bottom or we can simply click the radio button twice. This then takes us to the assignment setup screen. Because assignment is so powerful it has many different options we're only going to look at a few in this video. The name is important because this is what the learners will see on the course page and then in the description you add what you want them to do for the assignment. If you want to include images, media, links you click the appropriate icons. I'm just going to write a short description of what they must do and if you want to display these instructions on the course page you check the box. Scrolling down you can then choose when you want them to send in their work and due dates or a cutoff date beyond which they won't be able to send it in. What's important next is to decide your submission type. In other words if you want them to upload one or several files you make sure that file submission is checked and you can choose the number of files you want them to send in. If you want them merely to type an essay using Moodle's text editor you select online text and you can also get Moodle to give them a word count. Once we've done this we can actually scroll down and save and return to course and we're ready to go but it is worth exploring some of the other options in the other links. For example in feedback types setting comments in line will allow you to type directly on the learner's work just as you would when grading on paper. In submission settings you can decide whether you want them to accept an agreement that the work is their own. In group submission settings you can get them to work and submit in a group and in notifications we can choose whether or not to be messaged when students submit and also whether or not by default students will be messaged when we've graded their work. If we click grade we can see that it's possible to choose a number out of which the assignment can be graded and it's also possible to create our own scales which we will look at briefly in another video. If you check blind marking then you won't initially be able to see which learner has submitted which piece of work. Marking workflow and allocation are useful when sharing a course with other teachers to divide up, moderate and keep an eye on the progress of grading. But for now let's just save and return to course and our assignment is ready for our students to submit and you can see that it has its own icon which enables the learner to identify what particular activity they're going to be doing when they click the link.